I am a PhD Candidate at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Berlin. I use computational methods to study online disinformation, transnational repression, and coercive power dynamics on social media. I am generally interested in studying the role of social media platforms in the production of rhetoric that supports state-sponsored violence. In my dissertation, I focus on pro-government actors’ use of foreign social media for limiting the transnational reach of exile and diaspora dissent.

In a past life, I was a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Malaysia and happened to get a BSc in Economics and Asian Studies from Tulane University after living in New Orleans for four years.